Talking out of both sides of your face: Discursive duality in the actual play gaming space
By Steven Dashiell Tabletop role playing games (TRPGs) have been around for over a half century but have experienced something…
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Cooking Through The Climate Crisis: Book Review of C. Pam Zhang’s Land of Milk and Honey
By David Sutton A number of scholars in Anthropology and related disciplines have posed the question “What is the Future…
Are You Having a Good Time? Abuse, Bad Jokes & Making Light of Gender-Based Violence in 2024
By Emma Louise Backe In year marked by monumental legal cases against abusive men—Gisèle Pelicot in France, Cassie’s lawsuit against…
Monkey See, Monkey Do: Planet of the Apes, Animalization and the Visual Politics of Occupation
By Emma Louise Backe When War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) concluded, Caesar had successfully led his people…
SpaceX’s biggest rocket flies for the first time: But Do We Understand What This Actually Means?
What if we trained our imaginations to appreciate that the way for reaching the stars in a Starship i.e., attaining knowledge, unity and harmony, was not strictly technological but social and cultural as well? What if we recognised that technological and social innovation did not come from the apparent eureka moments (and individualised capital) of the elites but the accumulated wisdom and creativity of our species?
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